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Notification 10 November 2015

Notification No.225/2015 [F.No.V.27015/3/2015-SO(NAT.COM)] / SO 3035(E)

Section 35AC of the Income-tax Act, 1961 - Eligible Projects or Schemes, Expenditure on - Notified Eligible Projects or Schemes

What this is

Notification No.225/2015 [F.No.V.27015/3/2015-SO(NAT.COM)] / SO 3035(E) was published on 10 November 2015. Its subject is Section 35AC of the Income-tax Act, 1961 - Eligible Projects or Schemes, Expenditure on - Notified Eligible Projects or Schemes.

What it does

The Central Government, under sub-section (1) read with clause (b) of the Explanation to section 35AC of the Income-tax Act, 1961, notifies the project "Running of 'Lifeline Express' (the hospital on wheels)" carried out by Impact India Foundation, NHAVA House, 1st Floor, 65, Maharshi Karve Road, Marine Lines, Mumbai-400002, as an eligible project or scheme for a further period of three years commencing with financial year 2015-16, that is 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18. It also amends the parent notification S.O. 373(E) dated 19 March 2004 by substituting, in the Table against serial number 1, in column (4), "Rs. 2398.32 lakh including a corpus of Rs. 319.19 lakh" for "Rs. 901.02 lakh including a corpus fund of Rs. 219.19 lakh". The project was first specified at serial number 1 of S.O. 373(E) for three years beginning with financial year 2003-04 and extended by S.O. 1823(E) dated 26 October 2006, S.O. 2055(E) dated 6 August 2009 and S.O. 670(E) dated 12 March 2013, the last running to financial year 2014-15.

Why it was issued

The project or scheme is likely to extend beyond twelve years and its cost is likely to rise to Rs. 2398.32 lakh including a corpus of Rs. 319.19 lakh, and the National Committee for Promotion of Social and Economic Welfare, satisfied that it is being executed properly, recommended the extension and the amendment of cost under sub-rule (5) of rule 11M of the Income-tax Rules, 1962.

Who it reaches

The provisions it speaks to

Left, the provision of the Income-tax Act, 1961 as the instrument itself names it. Right, the section of the Income-tax Act, 2025 that the department’s own concordance maps it to — which is where the same ground is now covered.
Under the 1961 ActNow
s.35ACno counterpart recorded

The instrument, as the Board published it

The words below are the department’s own, reproduced from its published text. Where the department’s copy carried a publisher’s notes after the instrument, those are not reproduced.

SECTION 35AC OF THE INCOME-TAX ACT, 1961 - ELIGIBLE PROJECTS OR SCHEMES, EXPENDITURE ON - NOTIFIED ELIGIBLE PROJECTS OR SCHEMES
NOTIFICATION NO. SO 3035(E) [NO.225/2015 (F.NO.V.27015/3/2015-SO (NAT.COM))], DATED 10-11-2015
Whereas by notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), number S.O.373(E) dated the 19th March, 2004, issued under sub-section (1) read with clause (b) of the Explanation to section 35AC of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Government had specified at serial number 1, "Running of "Lifeline Express" (the hospital on wheels)" by "Impact India Foundation, NHAVA House, Ist Floor, 65, Maharshi Karve Road, Marine Lines, Mumbai - 400002", as an eligible project or scheme for a period of three years beginning with financial year 2003-2004, which was extended further vide Notification Number S.O.1823(E) dated the 26th October, 2006 for a period of three years beginning with financial year 2006-2007, which was extended further vide notification number S.O. 2055(E) dated 6th August, 2009 for a period of three years beginning with financial year 2009-10 and which was further extended vide S.O. No.670(E) dated 12.3.2013 for a period of three years ending with financial year 2014-15;
And whereas by Notification Number S.O. 670(E) dated 12.3.2013 the estimated cost was enhanced from 351.02 lakh including a corpus fund of Rs.119.19 lakh to Rs. 901.02 lakh including a corpus fund of Rs. 219.19 lakh;
And whereas the said project or scheme is likely to extend beyond twelve years;
And whereas the project cost is likely to enhance from Rs. 901.02 lakh including a corpus fund of Rs. 219.19 lakh to Rs. 2398.32 lakh including a corpus of Rs.319.19 lakh;
And whereas the National Committee for Promotion of Social and Economic Welfare, being satisfied that the said project or scheme is being executed properly, made a further recommendation under sub-rule (5) of rule 11M of the Income-tax Rules, 1962 for extending the said project or scheme for a further period of three years and amending the project cost from Rs. 901.02 lakh including a corpus fund of Rs. 219.19 lakh to Rs. 2398.32 lakh including a corpus of Rs.319.19 lakh;
Now, therefore, the Central Government, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub- section (1) read with clause (b) of the Explanation to section 35AC of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), (a) hereby notifies the scheme or project "Running of "Lifeline Express" (the hospital on wheels)", which is being carried out by "Impact India Foundation, NHAVA House, Ist Floor, 65, Maharshi Karve Road, Marine Lines, Mumbai - 400002", as an eligible project or scheme for a further period of three years commencing with the financial year 2015-16 i.e 2015-16, 2016-17 & 2017-18 and;
(b) further amends the said Notification Number S.O. 373(E) dated the 19th March, 2004, to the following effect, namely:—
In the said notification, in the Table against serial number 1, in column (4), relating to maximum amount of cost to be allowed as deduction under section of 35AC of Income Tax Act, 1961 for the letters, figures and word "Rs. 901.02 lakh including a corpus fund of Rs. 219.19 lakh" the letters, figures and word "Rs. 2398.32 lakh including a corpus of Rs.319.19 lakh" shall be substituted.
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What it changes

The rule numbers are the 1962 Rules’ own, as the notification names them. The right-hand column is the department’s own mapping into the Income-tax Rules, 2026, which renumbered nearly everything.
Rule of the 1962 RulesNow, in the 2026 Rules
Rule 11Mno counterpart recorded

From when

financial year 2015-16.

What to watch

Where you meet it

In a donor's return claiming deduction under section 35AC for a payment to the Foundation, and in the certificate issued for the year of payment.

An example

Ours, not the Board’s: a worked case built from the rule the instrument sets, to show how it falls out.

A company paying Rs. 50 lakh to the Foundation in financial year 2016-17 towards the Lifeline Express project may claim it under section 35AC, the payment being within the further period notified and within the enhanced ceiling of Rs. 2398.32 lakh.

What it names

Rules it names. Rule 11M of the Income-tax Rules, 1962. The 1962 Rules were replaced by the Income-tax Rules, 2026, which renumbered nearly everything: a rule number quoted here almost never means the same rule today.

On the same provision

Other instruments in this library that name the same provision of the 1961 Act. They are not necessarily still operative, and a later one may have replaced an earlier one without saying so.

← Notification No.226/2015 [F.No.V.27015/3/2015-SO(NAT.COM)] / SO 3036(E)  ·  Notification No.224/2015 [F.No.V.27015/3/2015-SO(NAT.COM)] / SO 3034(E) →

What a notification is. A notification is made under a power the Act itself gives, and within that power it is law — unlike a circular, which only binds the department. Its reach is the reach of the enabling provision and no wider, and the date it carries decides from when it works.

Source: the Income Tax Department’s own published text — its page for this instrument.